Thursday, December 11, 2025

Elon Musk Just Revealed SpaceX’s Moon Base Alpha Plan for 2028

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iV3tzOdMY 

https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/moon 

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984141376133722469

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship 123m or 403 feet in length.

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starship-nasa-saturn-v-sls-moon-rockets-comparison-2019-7 


So, instead of something like the Millennium_Falcon, it's more like this

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Millennium_Falcon 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(1958 film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051638/mediaviewer/rm3299380738/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051638/mediaviewer/rm3601370626/ 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon or De la terre à la lune (1865)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon (1901) 

https://superepicfailpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Lunar

https://americanliterature.com/author/hg-wells/book/the-first-men-in-the-moon/chapter-25-the-grand-lunar  

While there probably won't be a Grand Lunar being, there might be the Elon of Mars, someday.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/a-book-from-1952-predicted-someone-named-elon-would-guide-humans-to-mars 

https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/german-engineer-predicted-elon-would-conquer-mars-in-1952-novel/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mars-scientist-braun-b1879535.html 

Various books, movies and TV productions can sometimes mention a peculiar person, place or thing in the future. 

https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars